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Freight invoice audits that recover spend without adding headcount.

Match invoices to contracted rates and shipment evidence, surface recoverable discrepancies, and prepare human-approved disputes.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$14,500
fixed-scope pilot
Launch now
launch posture
High current buying momentum
market signal
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HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
CFO, VP Transportation, 3PL COO, freight-audit firm CEO
The champion
Transportation Finance Director, AP Director, Freight Audit manager
Day-to-day users
Freight auditors, AP analysts, transportation operations

Designed, built, and evaluated by Alpesh Nakrani, VP of Growth at ViitorCloud, 14 years shipping software, writing on AI-Native engineering and evaluation.

Evals-first
built in from day one
Human-gated
judgment stays with you
The problem

Where the time and money actually go.

Rates, accessorials, fuel tables, BOLs, PODs, and invoices live in different systems; manual samples miss leakage and false positives damage carrier relationships.

Who feels it

Freight auditors, AP analysts, transportation operations

Trigger to act: Freight spend is growing, accessorial expense is unexplained, duplicate payments occur, or an audit-and-pay provider wants higher analyst throughput.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$7,000
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: $2 million monthly freight spend × 0.35% newly identified and collectible leakage = $7,000 monthly recovery. Use a blind historical back-test before any sales promise.

The outcome, plainly: Match invoices to contracted rates and shipment evidence, surface recoverable discrepancies, and prepare human-approved disputes.

Audited spend coverage
precision/recall of discrepancies
recovered dollars
How it works

Inputs in. A cited, review-ready result out. Your expert decides.

A Document AI + workflow agent. Every material fact is grounded in an allowed source and returned with its identifier, no invented data.

01
Extract line items
02
normalize shipment identifiers
03
perform rate and duplicate checks
04
validate accessorial evidence
05
score discrepancies
06
create dispute packet
07
track resolution
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
TMS
ERP/AP system
carrier invoice feeds
rate repository
BOL/POD store
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra
Human gateAn auditor approves every dispute, material accrual adjustment, and carrier communication; low-confidence document matches remain unresolved.
Action · only after approval
track resolution
Audit trace
sources, rules, confidence, reviewer
Tenant isolation
minimum data, never cross-tenant
Evaluation suite
baselined pre-launch, watched after
Observability
cost, latency & drift telemetry
Model strategy

Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra for evidence-aware extraction and reasoning; Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Claude Haiku 4.5 for high-volume classification and normalization. Amazon Textract or Azure AI Document Intelligence; PostgreSQL + pgvector; Pinecone only when scale/latency requires it.

Inputs
  • Invoice
  • rate confirmation or tariff
  • shipment record
  • BOL/POD
  • accessorial evidence
  • fuel index
The human gate

AI-Native, not autonomous. Judgment stays with your people.

The machine does the work; the human’s role narrows to the one thing that matters, judgment. That constraint is what makes it safe to deploy.

Non-negotiable human gate

An auditor approves every dispute, material accrual adjustment, and carrier communication; low-confidence document matches remain unresolved.

What it will never do
No automatic payment hold or carrier dispute above configured thresholds
No invented rate terms
No recovery guarantee
Client remains responsible for contractual interpretation
The scorecard

A scorecard, not a demo. We baseline what breaks in production.

Every deployment ships with an evaluation suite. These are the numbers we baseline before launch and monitor after.

Primary
Audited spend coverage
precision/recall of discrepancies
recovered dollars
false-dispute rate
invoice cycle time
duplicate prevention
carrier dispute aging
Why this, not that

The category is crowded. Most of it isn’t built for your workflow.

The alternatives
TraxIntelligent AuditTriumphPayCassnVision GlobalLoopControlPaymanual audit-and-pay providers
This implementation

Fixed-scope, tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in from day one. A price you own, not a subscription you rent.

✓ Fixed price, not a seat subscription ✓ Grounded in your data & rules ✓ Human approval on consequential actions ✓ Auditable decision trace
Systems & integrations

It plugs into the stack you already run.

No rip-and-replace. Access is scoped to the minimum data necessary, isolated per tenant, and fully logged.

TMSERP/AP systemcarrier invoice feedsrate repositoryBOL/POD storefuel tablesdispute portal/email
Pricing

Transparent by design. The build price buys the workflow and the proof.

A fixed implementation fee plus a monthly bill that scales with volume and governance. No hidden seats.

Pilot
$14,500
one-time · bounded proof of value
  • One process / scope
  • Live workflow on your data
  • Baseline evaluation suite
  • Measured vs. current process
Most chosen
Production
$33,000
one-time · full deployment
  • Full scope & integration
  • Human-review UI & audit trail
  • Write-back to your systems
  • Production evals & monitoring
Enterprise
$53,000
one-time · multi-entity / regulated
  • Multi-facility rollout
  • Advanced security & compliance
  • Custom control & escalation
  • Dedicated evaluation program
Monthly operating cost

10,000–40,000 document pages/month; OCR/form extraction, model verification, storage and workflow compute.

$800–5,000
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$2,000/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your TMS and other platform licenses are separate and owned by you. Figures confirmed during scoping.

On working with Alpesh
“His vast knowledge of technologies and a natural problem-solving mindset consistently lead us through complex challenges with clarity and confidence.”
AM
Adil Multani
Senior Backend Developer
Why this is safe to try
01Baseline first. We measure your current numbers before we build anything.
02Fixed scope, fixed price. One process in the pilot. No open-ended engagement.
03Expand only if the scorecard earns it. You see the measured result before committing to production.
04Your people stay in control. The human gate means nothing consequential happens without a human’s approval.
FAQ

Questions serious buyers ask.

Does the AI act on its own?

No. An auditor approves every dispute, material accrual adjustment, and carrier communication; low-confidence document matches remain unresolved. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: no automatic payment hold or carrier dispute above configured thresholds; no invented rate terms; no recovery guarantee; client remains responsible for contractual interpretation.

How do you stop it inventing facts?

Every material claim is grounded in an allowed source record and returned with its source identifier. The system separates observed facts, model inference, and missing information, and routes to a human whenever confidence is low, evidence conflicts, or an adverse outcome is possible.

What does it cost to run each month?

A usage bill of roughly $800–5,000/month (10,000–40,000 document pages/month; OCR/form extraction, model verification, storage and workflow compute), plus a $2,000/month managed retainer for evaluation, monitoring and maintenance. Your existing platform licenses are separate and already yours. Exact figures are confirmed during scoping.

Do we need a ChatGPT or Claude subscription?

No consumer ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required for the production workflow. The client needs an approved API/cloud billing account. Workspace seats are optional for internal prototyping and administrator access.

How is this different from Trax?

Tools like Trax, Intelligent Audit, and TriumphPay are broad platforms you adapt to. This is a fixed-scope implementation tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in, and a transparent price instead of a seat subscription.

How long until it’s live, and how do we prove it works?

This is a launch now. We baseline “Audited spend coverage” first, then measure against that baseline. You see the scorecard before expanding scope, the evaluation suite ships with the system, not as an afterthought.

Book a scoping call

Bring your real numbers. Leave with a fixed-scope plan.

A 30-minute engineering-led working session, no slideware. You leave with a sized opportunity estimate, a fixed-scope pilot plan, and the integration & human-review path mapped.

VP of Growth at ViitorCloud · senior delivery owner confirmed before paid work

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